2017年11月20日 星期一

GE的董事會更新；Toyota to U.S. workers: Made-in-Japan Camrys are more profitable

Toyota Motor Corp. issued an unsettling warning to Kentucky workers building its top-selling Camry sedan: Cut costs now or face an uncertain future. The automaker can build a Camry in Japan, ship it all the way to Kentucky and make more money selling that car ...

超大型公司GE的董事會更新。原本無一事。

General Electric Co. is narrowing its focus around several key markets, cutting costs and slashing the dividend. With all that shrinking going on, it’s only natural that the board would follow suit.

John Flannery, GE’s new chairman and chief executive officer, plans to reduce the size of the 18-member board by a third. The members of the smaller slate, which will include three new directors and nine returnees, will be proposed at the April 2018 shareholder meeting.

“Smaller board, new skills, easier to debate -- those are the things we were thinking,” Flannery said this week at an investor meeting. “I love different ideas. I love people coming in and saying, ‘Have you looked at it this way or that way?’”